Dr Nicoleta Cinpoes

Principal Lecturer in English - Shakespeare

Contact Details

Nicoleta Cinpoes joined the University of Worcester in 2007. She teaches Renaissance Literature, is Course Leader for English Literary Studies and co-director of Worcester’s Early Modern Research Group.

Nicoleta is the author of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Romania 1778-2008: A Study in Translation, Performance and Cultural Appropriation (Mellen, 2010) and of the open-access website: The Jacobethans. Her work has appeared in Theatrical Blends, Shakespeare Bulletin, Studia Dramatica and Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory. In the theatre, she has worked in several capacities – from that of dramaturge to assistant director and translator. Currently, she is editing Doing Kyd: A Collection of Critical Essays on The Spanish Tragedy (forthcoming, MUP) and collaborating on a new Romanian translation of Shakespeare’s Complete Works, writing introductions to: Hamlet (2010), Titus Andronicus, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, and The Comedy of Errors.

Teaching & Research

Teaching & Research

Nicoleta's research in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies specialises in Shakespeare staged, on the screen, in the classroom, on the internet, translated, appropriated, adapted and recycled. She is particularly interested in Shakespeare in performance viewed as site-, time- and media-specific. Her research takes place through reconstructing productions, writing theatre history and reading performance hermeneutics – all of which are intrinsic to critical and cultural production, and the reception and teaching of Shakespeare’s works.

She contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate modules across the English Literary Studies curriculum; her teaching focuses on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, early modern literature and culture, film adaptations, and European theatre.